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A visit to the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery (FG ID #2221695)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery

Lat:   35.6421°   (35° 38' 31")

Lon:   -81.6858°   (-81° 41' 8")

The Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery is located in Burke County<2>.

The county seat for Burke County is located in Morganton. Morganton lies just to the north of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery .

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 23 that are within 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery.<4>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 27 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery, with the nearest first.

  • Enola
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Yellow Gap
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Salem
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Salem have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
    • Salem is located in Burke County
  • Magnolia
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Magnolia have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia
    • Magnolia is located in Burke County
  • Rollins ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rollins have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rollins
    • Rollins is located in Burke County
  • Brindletown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Calvin
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Morganton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morganton have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morganton
    • Morganton is located in Burke County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 16,625 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morganton <7>
  • Shoups Ford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Olive Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olive Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olive Grove
    • Olive Grove is located in Cleveland County
  • Camp Creek
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Ramsey
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Glen Alpine
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glen Alpine have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Alpine
      • Glen Alpine is located in Burke County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,487 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glen Alpine <7>
    • Parkhill
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Casar
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Valdese
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valdese have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valdese
      • Valdese is located in Burke County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,407 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Valdese <7>
    • Drexel
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Drexel have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drexel
      • Drexel is located in Burke County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,861 people
    • Patten
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Mountain Home ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
      • Mountain Home is located in McDowell County
    • Knob Creek
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Laurel Hill
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Laurel Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Hill
      • Laurel Hill is located in Lincoln County
    • Connelly Springs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Rutherford College
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Chesterfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Delight
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Toluca
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Toluca have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toluca
      • Toluca is located in Cleveland County
    • Cooksville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cooksville have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooksville
      • Cooksville is located in Catawba County

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery. The following communities are located in Burke County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

  • Morganton
  • Valdese
    • Valdese lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the Northeast (NE) of the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Valdese.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valdese

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery:

Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery:

The official website for Burke County: www.co.burke.nc.us/

The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of North Carolina's counties, including Burke, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6421, Longitude: -81.6858    
<4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<7>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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